Comments on: Transparent Paper: PAPER.TEXTFILES.COM

By: ASCII by Jason Scott / The Hiatus

ASCII by Jason Scott / The Hiatus — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:02:03 +0000

[...] lower priorities of my projects. Between the documentary editing, the sorting and cleaning up of my archives, my massive backup crusade, and a huge realm of other time-takers, I just don’t make this [...]

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:44:48 +0000

Actually, let me go further. If you’re a hoarder who does not want to give away or donate or mail me your magazines you never threw out, then my suggestion is: go to a local comic book shop, buy a bunch of backs and backings, bag and back your collected magazines, and put them into storage bins. Then you’re able to refer to them as a set instead of a pile. If you do decide to throw them out or donate them, it’s that much easier. You also might consider making a list, like I do, for use later.

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:28:07 +0000

To answer both of you: I prefer the original paper if you want to mail stuff to me (Jason Scott, 738 Main Street #383, Waltham, MA 02451), but I like having scans of material just for the record. If you want to send me stuff, just send it – duplicates are fine, since some magazines have gone through life happier than others.

By: Liz Dunn

Liz Dunn — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:30:28 +0000

I am a magazine hoarder; I would love to be part of your paper archive team. For the record.

By: Palad

Palad — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:54:59 +0000

If it came down to it, would you rather have people send you scans or hard copies of their old materials?

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:18:59 +0000

Not anytime soon – no time. If there’s something specific you need, let me know.

By: jas

jas — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:14:22 +0000

hey, can you scan and post those boardwatch mags?

By: Ryan Russell

Ryan Russell — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:20:35 +0000

No… You have now volunteered to be responsible for having a copy of every computer magazine, ever. I’m just suggesting a small improvement to the way we dump these on you.

By: Flack

Flack — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:27:26 +0000

I think Ryan may have been thinking what I was thinking. If that page is kept up to date, it serves two purposes: “What Jason Scott has,” and more importantly, “What Jason Scott DOESN’T have.” Multiple times I’ve run across things that I’ve thought about sending your way and then put it off because “he probably already has that.” Now I have a list of what magazines you own physical copies of. I feel sorry for your postman already.

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:48:00 +0000

It doesn’t beg that at all, because this isn’t a list of stuff that is out there; this is stuff that I actually have in my house. If people want something, they’ll mail me. And over time, as things come in, I’ll integrate these items.

In some cases, I have complete digitized sets of the entire run of magazines, and while that’s nice and may be referenced here, that’s also not the point.